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Recently, we added the link pointing to a Compare View where you
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Popular opinion among smart, skilled, hard-working people seems to go something like this:

Something is wrong with a society/world that values and rewards outgoing people, who talk up their strengths, over good or even great people who do not.

Ah, self-promotion.

Is there any other skill in the world of which smart, skilled, hard-working people love to boast, “I’m just terrible at it”?

I was recently invited to talk about my Twitter Node project at last night’s PDX Javascript Admirers meeting. I was really nervous about giving my first talk in several years, but I did alright. My slides are up on Heroku.

The big win of the talk, however, was Scott’s showoff app for composing presentations.

I apologize for not getting another Rails 3 upgrade post up this weekend, but I spent this weekend working on a few things. First, I contributed a few little pieces to the Rails 3 release notes, which should be showing up on the Rails blog soon (edit: or view them here right now), but most of my time was devoted to a bigger project.